Banned Books Week

In honor of which, I challenge you to list which of the American Library Association’s 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books you’ve read.

I’ll start.  Here are the ones I’ve read:

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Cujo by Stephen King
  • The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Native Son by Richard Wright
  • Carrie by Stephen King
  • The Dead Zone by Stephen King
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
  • Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman

Okay, over to you. But first, three questions: One, why would anyone get upset with Where’s Waldo? Two*, why would I, a grown man, admit to having read a Where’s Waldo book? Three, where are the Bible, the Koran, the Talmud? Those books have caused more trouble, suffering, and misery than all 100 “most frequently challenged books” put together.

*Answer to question # 2: to show you I’m being honest with you . . .

Credit where credit’s due: got the idea from Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly.


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